Megan Dahlgren is the Founder of Mesa Capital Partners, where she combines venture investing with hands-on growth execution to help early-stage and scaling technology companies achieve real market traction. She brings over two decades of experience across enterprise technology and startup leadership, with senior roles at Cisco, IDC, BMC, and NTT, as well as serving as CEO of venture-backed startups SpringML and Currance.

At NTT, Megan led the company's Silicon Valley Innovation Center for three years, building a global enterprise innovation community that connected Fortune 500 leaders, venture capital firms, startups, and corporate development teams. Today, through Mesa, she partners directly with founders to build revenue pipelines, define market categories, and legitimize product-market fit through real customer traction and strategic partnerships.

With a background bridging software innovation and electric aviation, Akash Aggarwal brings a unique technical lens to the MESA team. Before entering venture capital, he spent three years building and exiting his startup, Posted. His passion for frontier technology is rooted in his time as a researcher for NASA and a strategist for LIFT Aircraft in the eVTOL space. A licensed Private Pilot, Akash applies the same precision and discipline to business strategy that he does to aviation.